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Debt ceiling meeting between Biden, congressional leaders postponed

By: Tyler Pager, Paul Kane

Biden was expected to huddle with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

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Defending white nationalists, Tommy Tuberville fears a military that is ‘going wrong’

By: Paul Kane

The first-term senator has stepped up his campaign against the U.S. military, saying, 'I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican.'

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McConnell’s legacy in Kentucky faces national test in governor’s race

By: Paul Kane

The Senate GOP leader saw three more acolytes ring up nominations for statewide races, but in the general election his ally faces off against a popular Democratic governor with national ambitions.

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How Garret Graves became Republicans’ debt ceiling negotiation frontman

By: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Paul Kane, Marianna Sotomayor

How Garret Graves became Republicans’ debt ceiling negotiation frontman

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Missing in this year’s debt-ceiling talks: Democratic demands for new taxes

By: Paul Kane

Democrats have not made tax increases a central plank of their demands even as Republicans have vocally pushed for deep spending cuts.

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McCarthy’s salesmanship to conservatives to be tested with any debt deal

By: Paul Kane

President Biden declared that the final deal must be something he and the House speaker "can sell to both sides." McCarthy faces the tougher test.

McCarthy to be tested with any debt deal

By: Paul Kane

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) spoke to former president Donald Trump a few days ago on a range of topics, including - "just for a second" - on the Republican

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This low-profile committee could sink or save the Biden-McCarthy deal

By: Paul Kane

Kevin McCarthy agreed to add three far-right conservatives to the Rules Committee in order to win enough votes to become House speaker. That trio now holds the fate of this legislation in their hands.

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McCarthy, White House race to woo lawmakers to pass debt ceiling package

By: Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, Julian Mark

Debt ceiling negotiators are spending Memorial Day working toward cementing enough support to pass a deal to raise the debt ceiling and trim federal spending.

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How House Dems went from angry at to rallying around the Biden White House

By: Paul Kane

Just a week earlier House Democrats were fuming mad over what they saw as a one-sided negotiation tilting toward Republicans. Then Wednesday night they embraced the compromise.